Loop and questions

Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

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By the end of next week should finaly be able to put my loop together, been waiting for pump :(
here is a rough diagram of bits and flow
red = components
blue = fans
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what do ya think??? any suggestions

2. when filling the loop do i leave top off res and keep filling? whilst the pump is on.
3. For fitting a drain point, what do i need and do Ocuk have what i will require, position i was thinking of was just in front of lower rad as the dust cover is removeable so could drain out of bottom.
4. bleeding, again do i unscrew top of res to let air out???

thx
nick

edit, not sure if i can do it yet but would like to route the long tube from top rad to controller WB to the back of the case, where cables are, can you get tube to tube fittings, as i dont want to kink the tube.
 
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andybird123 said:
one comment - from the picture it looks like you are planning on drawing air in to the case over the 240 and then out of the top over the 360... you'll be basically taking all the heat the 240 can dump and pushing it back in to the 360 rad before the 360 is able to then shed any of it's own heat

you want to have all the fans on the rads on push out of the case for best performance

if you can fit a fan in the bottom of the case and the side panel sucking in, this will help
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yes you were right with your first statement

thx andy, so both of the rads fans on pull???

cannot do push pull on the 360, is it worth doing for the 240?

I have got a fan to be mounted inbetween the psu and rad drawing some cool air in, the exhaust fan to the rear of the case would you keep that exhausting or flip it to draw more air in to cool motherboard????
 
Thx muffles for your reply, think i'm just gonna have to try different set ups to see what gives the better results.
I can certainly see where andy is coming from by drawing the warm air out at source, but this in turn i would have thought will reduce airfow through the case. If everything had a waterblock. On then that solution would defo be the best way, but i'm thinking i need some air over the memory and motherboard. Oh i have got an old dominator memory fan module, that could help there, no?
 
gregster said:
Just reporting how my temps are with the new set up of fans underneath the bottom 240 rad in push and the fans at the top 360 rad in pull.

3930K @ 4.625 (1.32V) idle 35C full load 61C (prime been running for 2 hours)

Great improvement for me this way :)

Pump is on full btw and fans pretty full (a little noisy). I will be lowering my pump and fans soon.
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Thx greg, did you have both rad fans on pull before??
 
pgi947 said:
I'm not a fan of prime, much prefer 5 runs of IBT followed by some gaming.
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I've been using IBT a lot more lately, been mega stable with that but can still have the odd crash with bf3 :(, not been testing properly though leaving that till its all under water, 3 days to go!:D
 
to be honest the board is very much like AMD(starts off slow and builds to be a top performer), as in it works well but perhaps not how it ought to, but that was when it was new, beta updates are released at a rapid rate and i'm pleased to report that its about there now, was so used to ASUS boards which just worked from the off. when i tested it with my 2500k i got that upto 4.8, the highest my asus z68 could manage was about 4650hz. so overall i'm happy with my purchase and imo it looks the dogs :)

1 more question, i kept to my original plan of black tubes, against advice(sorry paul!) can the air bubbles be heard???? the only place i will see them is in my res.
 
right ok thx greg, so is it like bleeding a household radiator will air hiss out when i undo fillport on top of res.
and on my res how far upto the top should the fluid go???
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right ok, thx

i'm assuming my pump will be on full whack when i'm filling e.t.c with it being software controlled, will that be a problem??? and also with my pump/res being low in the case will that cause a problem when filling, i.e mavity pushing fluid down and up into the res???
 
Gutted now, 2 of the cheapest bits of my loop, tim and brackets are not going to be here on time, should have been with me monday, tuesday latest. Spent about 2k in last month, to be held up by a £20 order, off work now as well for 3 days and cant play with my new toys. ****.:mad:

Royal mail are ****
 
pgi947 said:
Damn, which brackets? Not grab some TIM locally?

I'm also waiting on TIM for my rebuild, it appears to have gone missing between being loaded at OcUK HQ and arriving at the sortation hub :p

But its all good, 5UB is on the case as usual being his awesome self :D
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Brackets for aquaero fan controller, got a waterblock on it so wanted in place.
Waiting for liquid metal for under my lid and some gelid for lightning block and on top of cpu heatsink.
Got some as5 but certainly dont want to strip gpu down again, and no decent pc shops in lincolnshire, just the ones with purple shirts who dont have a clue what tim is.:D

Edit: those brackets are like fairy dust!! Struggle to get them anywhere
My rant is aimed at royal mail, NOT ocuk, they should not have the royal approval.
 
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No idea, not got tracking number either so cant contact them.

Bought new monitor today(and keyboard and HDD from ocuk of course)and forgot display port cable so i ordered one and it came up with delivery by royal mail, so ordered one of the new roccat pure mice as well just so DPD would deliver
 
Right ok, may as well do that tom then and gotta drill few holes for pump mounting.
What can i use for cutting a very thin straight line in plastic?? And i've not got a dremel.
 
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